independent air, and move; , with a holder -carriage r thanr-the natives of
Java. A considerable difference exists in person ' and , features 'between
the -higher and,lower -classes.;, more indeed (thaq 'spejqs^ttributable to
difference of .employment andc,treatynent: The -.{featupgs^and-^im^is’. of
the. chiefs -are; more -delicate/ and-.-approaph more nearly -„to thosg^cf, the
inhabitants cff'Westernylndjg, w"hile thq^%of',tb%commgn people retain,jinore
marked’ traces,of the. s,tock. from, which theds)ands^erg{pnginally pqopled.
In colour there are-many, dpsrçentjhadesrin different famjlie^^gd
districts, some-bekrg_much'dark-er than .others..; Among m anyr of/th e^chiefs
astrpng-mixture sof .the Ghinese: is; clearly discernible,: the Arab features
are seldom-found, except among the priests, and,some few-families of ,the
• highest rank.-. 3 ;
, .The women, inTgPnetfal,/are mot .so-tgpqd.Jooking' as tb®--men*.; and tp
•Europeans , many p f; them, particularly .when advanced in ^pars^;app§ar
hideously ugly: But - among the loyrer’ orders, much jofjthis^ deficiency . of
personal fcomeliness>isUi&ubtless to-bp attributed :toj th er^ .^ f ^ ntjn|^hich
they-have to-peîform in the field,'to the hardships.: tijey^h^^to pndergoiin
carrying oppressive burdens, . and to-t«xppsure in a sultf-V -if e k te , foOn .the
neighbouring [island; of Mali, where rthet condition of^tfee v^gipên among
■ the ‘peasantry does .not appear by any means so/op^eSsedi ^nd-, d^Sadgd.,
-they 'exhibit .considerable.personal- beauty; and eyéBjon Java, the. higher
orders'of-tbem .being kept within, doors,..-have a very, deci^jç^^ppnriorify.
in this respect.
Manners. In manners, the : Javans', are.easy and courteous, and ^ p ^ ç 3t|ulc4V_eirto~
timidity ;Tthey have. a'greaL sensqipf-proprietyjand are never,- rffde ;o r abr-upt.-
In-their deportment They-t are pliant and ^graceful,, tbe,people oÇcpndiriop
carrying with them .a }consider-aBl.e:air of ..fashion, and receiving the ga^e^of
the - nuripus^without ..being at all disconcerted* 'I n their ;defc0.y^theyare
in general very circumspect and eyen “slow, .though not deficient dn animation
when :nece§S^Dy:o i
Goitres. - Here; >as on-Sumatra, there are pertain mountainous d istric^ in Wjhicb
the people [are subjeeif^to ..those 'large wens in the throat .ter rued in Europe
goitrfiS.: ' The cause is gpnerqlly. ascribed, by the'n atives to the quality, of^ the
water ; but -there; segms good; ground, for'"concluding, that it is rather Jobe
tfaped to)the;atmosphere*. ;• In proof of this it may.be ipentloned,, that ,there
*is-a villagCmear-the fqqtqf th^-Ten^-gan, mountains, • in the eastern part of
■the ■ island, where-eyery.family is’ afflicted.by'this. malady, while in another
village,
-village? fsituafed at a ‘greater feleviationjr 'and through which the stream
descendsi-^ehi*6b > '^ ^ ^ b ïtlth b fuse.-of bothj there exists' rio-such- deformity.
'■®hsse$s^HS-'hre'''cobsfderedjt hereditary dntrsome families, and seem thus
independent^ situation.AAranchsofttj^femily' o^the^jfresent Advpati of
Jiandurtg\-^\siih]ect to them, .and.iteria remarkable that they.prevail' chiefly
' women in that family.. They [neither produce positive suffering
nor occasion ’early: death, and may-he .c’oh'sidered; rather as deformities than
diséks^F'.'It is'ne ^ r -attëmpted to remote t$Wm.",T
The"population, pf Jav^yps ,,very -uimqually -distrihpt4[J,7 whether we con-
sidat^Adb fertility or the^xtént ofJ the ,di$tijqts joyer which it&is#l spread.
Thè- grèét mass löffif7 lies in the;eastern andr.nfative districts, as-, w-fil be per-
chfved from-the annex^rtables.-
■ §mg,‘"iame, No.T,‘is compilpd from materials 'collected by' a * committee
appointed on thejirst pstablishmpnt of the British tgovernment,, to enquire
and re^®t?^^we.^t-ate of the-country. It will be found to illustrate, in
1 sblffil^cg^^Kthe proportionate numbers of the different ranks and classes
df Spfeihfcy,. m^tbe island.aBe^ond this, however, it cannot bfe depended
'Mpo^n,1 'ÉS jtjtó returns of which it is an abstract were made at a period when
thq' DMch system of administration provisionally* reïnainèd in. förce ; and
y^erkVrihw lénquiry'iqto , the state, of the country being at that time consi-
idhfe'd by-thq people, as a prelude.to some new tax or, oppression, it became
an.pbje|||with-thenito conceal the full extent of the population: accord-
ingly, it was found to differ essentially'in amount from tnej results ofrinïbr-
matjon suh^quentl^^btainêd on',the introduction of the detailed land
.tekehuel^etdement, when an agreement -%ith' each individual t cultivator
-jherMdihgj necessary to the security of His possession, he seldom failed to
satisfy the necessary enquiries. The table No.vII, ,'here exhibited, at least
as -far asregafds the European provinces,. may therefore he considered as
faithful a view of the population of the country as could be expected, and
as such; notwithstanding the inaccuracies which all such accounts are
liable, it is-presented-,with some confidence to the public.
It was formed in the following manner. A detailed account pf the peasantry.
of each village was first taken, containing the name qf each male
inhabitant, with other particulars, and from the aggregate of these- village
lists:aigeneral statement was constructed of the* inhabitants of each-subdivision
and district. An abstract was again drawn up from, these provincial
accounts/ exhibiting the state of each residency in which the districts were
respectively
Population.
Population
taiii.es,